Category Archives: Life and Death

Contraception

There’s this idea that Catholics have a lot of kids because they like to consummate their marriages as much as anyone else, but aren’t allowed to use artificial contraceptives, children being the necessary but unintended result. This is backwards. Catholic families are large because … Continue reading

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Mother Teresa

Another thought on babies. At the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington in 1994, Mother Teresa said, in reference to abortion: “Please don’t kill the child. I want the child. Give the child to me.” But consider: she lived among the … Continue reading

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Kids #2

And another thing: the UN, Planned Parenthood and any other child-reducing agency you want to name all defend their actions by saying that if we keep having too many kids, we’ll increase world poverty. Our defense is often “No we … Continue reading

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Kids

Sometimes, we say that the purpose of having kids is to continue the human race. While this is undeniably true, I wonder if the main reason might be to give life to this child, and that one… That would explain … Continue reading

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Pro-life blog

Please check out this guy’s blog. A very insightful exploration of the ethical questions brought up by modern medicine and the abuse thereof. Better yet, concrete answers to said questions!

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Abortion

I’m becoming certain that we’ll make a much bigger impact on the abortion front by letting people know what we think without being asked. So here’s a belated Canadian election complaint: Of all the issues Mr. Harper could have promised … Continue reading

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Abuse of the system

My anatomy and physiology textbook includes a thorough, well written chapter explaining the perfection with which female and male bodies are designed to have children together. It then lists most of the ways you can interfere with the process. It … Continue reading

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